DEPLETED URANIUM,
ANTHRAX VACCINE AND THE GULF WAR SYNDROMEPART
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By Dr. James
Howenstine, MD.
August 14, 2005NewsWithViews.com

More
and more veterans have become chronically ill from a multitude of
symptoms since the end of Gulf War I. For many years the U.S.
government denied any responsibility for their mysterious symptoms.
Only 7,035 men were injured in this war. A total of 580,400 soldiers
served in the first Gulf War. By the end of 2000 325,000 of these
troops had become disabled This means that 56 % of those who served in
the first Gulf War were
disabled within less than 10 years.

In
August 2004 American Free Press reported that eight out of twenty men
serving in one unit during the 2003 invasion of Iraq had developed
malignancies. This translates into 40 % of the soldiers in that one
unit developing malignancies within
a 16 month period of time. What
is causing these terrible health problems?

Nine
members of the National Guard from New York State recently returned
from Iraq. These persons were deployed as Military Police. Two manmade
forms of uranium were found in urine specimens from 4 of these 9
soldiers. Certainly soldiers in combat roles would be expected to have
even greater exposure to inhaling depleted uranium dust.

Since
1943 the military has been aware of the extreme
toxicity of uranium as a gas. A
Oct 30, 1943 memo from Manhattan Project physicist James B. Conant to
Brig. General L.B. Abrams stated that as a gas warfare instrument the
radioactive material would be ground into microscopic particles forming
dust and smoke and could be distributed by ground fired projectiles,
land vehicles or aerial bombs. In this form it would be inhaled by
personnel. They estimated that one millionth of a gram would be fatal.
There are no known methods of treatment for such casualties.

The
depleted uranium DU was also recommended as a permanent
terrain contaminant which could be used to destroy populations by
contaminating water supplies and agricultural land with radioactive
dust. Current estimates suggest that the damaged soil in Iraq,
Yugoslavia and Afghanistan will need four and a half billion years to
recover from the radioactive effect of DU.

Some of
the uranium from shells vaporizes into particles measuring 1/10 of a
micron. These particles enter the atmosphere and later fall to the
ground with rain. Radioactive debris has been found at both the North
and South Poles. In gaseous form the chemically toxic and radioactive
uranium easily enters the body through the skin or when inhaled into
the lungs. Clothing and gas masks are easily penetrated. Large missiles
and bombs can disperse nearly 100 % of the DU into the atmosphere
whereas only 30 % of a tank shell disperses when fired. Any soldier or
civilian who breathes this gas has a permanent dose of radioactive
uranium RAU.

Uranium
is quite dense so it is ideal for penetrating armor. The radioactive
uranium is shaped into a penetrating rod 18 inches long and
¾ inch in diameter. When these shells are fired some of the
uranium contacts air and explodes into flame (pyrophoric quality).

Scientists
studying the biologic effects of radiation in the 1960s reported that
radioactive uranium targets the DNA. Marion Fulk, a nuclear physical
chemist, who had worked for both the Manhattan project and the
Livermore Nuclear Weapon Lab interprets the new and rapid development
of malignancies in soldiers from the 2003 war as “spectacular
and a matter of concern.” She states “This is the
perfect weapon (DU) for killing lots of people.”

There
are three effects of depleted uranium on biologic systems
–radiation, chemical and particulate. The particulate effect
of nano-sized particles is the most important of these three. This
appears immediately after exposure and targets
the master code of DNA. Simply
stated depleted uranium “trashes the body.” The DNA
damage is so severe these patients develop
multiple simultaneous cancers from different causes.
This new syndrome has never been reported before and is unique to internal
depleted uranium exposure. Such
patients were seen in civilians in Yugoslavia after NATO bombing using
DU bombs. There is currently
an epidemic of cancer in Iraqi children.

Another
horrifying consequence of DU exposure is damage to sperm causing many
severe deformities in the children born to veterans of the first Gulf
War. A group of 251 soldiers from Mississippi, who all had normal
babies before service in Iraq, were studied. Sixty
seven percent of their post war babies were born with severe birth
defects. These children were missing legs, arms, organs or eyes and had
immune system and blood diseases.
In some Gulf War veterans families the only normal children are those
who were born before serving in Iraq.
The Department of Defense denies any knowledge of birth defects in Gulf
War I veterans.

How
Much Depleted Uranium Has Been Used?

Depleted
uranium weapons were developed by the U.S. Navy in 1968. Depleted
uranium weapons were given to and used by Israel with U.S. supervision
in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 against the Arabs nations. Military
research detailed the use of DU weapons at military testing grounds,
bombing and gunnery ranges and civilian labs under contracts between
1974-1999. Presently 42 states have contamination from the manufacture,
testing and deployment of depleted uranium. The United States has sold
DU weapons to 29 countries.

In Gulf
War I DU weapons were used against Iraq. Between 315 and 350 tons of
depleted uranium was used in that war. The current Iraq war has
expended an estimated 5 times more tonnage of DU than was used in the
first Gulf War.

Japanese
professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that 800 tons of depleted
uranium is the atomicity equivalent of 83,000 bombs the size of the one
which struck Nagasaki. The U.S. has used more depleted uranium since
1991 than the atomicity equivalent of 400,000 Nagasaki bombs. This
includes four nuclear wars (Iraq twice, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan) and
is 10 times the amount of radiation released into the air from
atmospheric testing. Experts from the Department of Defense say that
the U.S. has 100 million tons of DU. Using up the DU in wars afford a
convenient way to dispose of some of the radioactive uranium and thus
avoid some of the huge expense that careful disposing of tons of DU
would entail.

The
“clean up” of 34 Abrams tanks and Bradley armored
vehicles that were erroneously hit by U.S. missiles during this first
Gulf war was supervised by Dr. Doug Rokke. Today he is suffering ill
effects from DU that entered his body in the clean up. One of the
problems he has is brittle teeth. The uranium displaces calcium in both
teeth and bones resulting in teeth that break. The majority of U.S.
casualties in this war were from “friendly fire.”
Dr. Rokke relates that DU is used because it is the most effective
weapon at killing and destroying everything it hits.

Thousands
of tons of depleted uranium were used for decades at four bombing and
gunnery ranges in Fallon, Nevada. This usage is no doubt responsible
for the fastest growing
leukemia cluster in the U.S. The
military has denied that DU has anything to do with this cluster. The
medical profession has been involved in the cover-up—just as
they were hiding the adverse effects that low level radiation from
atmospheric testing and nuclear power plants were producing.

A
physician in Northern California was being trained in the Pentagon with
other physicians months before the 2003 Gulf War started. They were
told to diagnose and treat
soldiers returning from the 2003 war for mental problems only. Medical
professionals in hospitals and facilities treating returning soldiers
were threatened with $10,000 fines if they talked about the soldiers or
their medical problems. They were also threatened with jail[1] terms.

Senator
Paul Wellstone informed Joyce Riley R.N., executive director of the
American Gulf War Veterans Association, that 95
% of Gulf War I veterans had been recycled out of the military by 1995.
Any of those continuing in military service were carefully isolated
from each other, preventing critical information from being shared with
new troops. One has to wonder if
his airplane crash was really an accident.

My
initial reaction to the 1993 Gulf War was that it was all about oil
which we desperately needed. Now it appears that I was wrong. Currently
there is strong evidence that we are preparing to invade Iran. Whether
this invasion will be preceded by another
“terrorist” attack on the U.S. is obviously
unknown. Perhaps a nuclear attack on a U.S. city by
“Arabs” would attract sufficient public opinion
approval to warrant another U.S. invasion of a sovereign nation.

My
impression currently is that there may be a more
insidious and sinister aspect to the invasion of Iraq.
Could we be using this nuclear war as a way to lower the population of
an Arab nation? Exposing all
the citizens in a nation to a daily dose of radioactive uranium dust
would be certain to produce very premature deaths and inability to
reproduce. These irradiated
nations will have huge problems with illness of their citizens and the
inability of most parents to produce healthy children for succeeding
generations.

Who is
going to be willing to work in irradiated oil fields knowing that their
life expectancy will be reduced by many years and that there is a
strong possibility that they will probably never
be able to have normal children.
Even salaries of a million dollars annually do not sound very
attractive to me to work in those irradiation contaminated oil fields.

The new
book The High Priests of War documents how Henry Kissinger had planned
an attack against the Arab world in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
This nicely coincided with a Middle Eastern oil crisis and the development
of DU war capabilities.

Mr.
Kissinger had been previously involved in plans (later implemented) to
lower the population of blacks in Africa by using bio-warfare[2]
programs (vaccines contaminated with HIV virus). This CIA plot was code
named PROJECT MKNAOMI. The details about the development of the HIV
vaccine in the NIH Cancer Division are well documented in Leonard G.
Horowtz’s book Emerging Viruses AIDS and Ebola Nature,
Accident or Intentional?

When
David J. Smith asked Vietnam Special Ops Green Beret Captain John
McCarthy “who could have devised this omnicidal plan to use
depleted uranium to destroy the genetic code and genetic future of
large populations of Arabs and Moslems in the Middle East and Central
Asia where most of the world’s oil deposits are
located?” he replied “It
has all the handprints of Henry Kissinger.”

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Zbignew
Brezinski’s new book The
Grand Chess-board: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives
shows a Eurasian chessboard with four regions strategic to U.S. foreign
policy. The “South” region corresponds precisely to
the regions now contaminated
permanently with radiation from U.S. bombs and missiles made from
thousands of tons of depleted uranium.

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James A. Howenstine is a board certified specialist in internal
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